Angela Merkel has said the future of the European Union hinges on whether it can find answers to the “vital questions” posed by migration.
Addressing the Bundestag before heading to Brussels for a European summitthat is likely to determine the future of her fraying coalition government, the German chancellor said European leaders should find a solution to asylum challenges “by allowing ourselves to be guided by values and rooting for multilateralism rather than unilateralism”.
If the heads of government gathering in Brussels failed to do so, Merkel said, they risked creating a situation where “no one believes in the value system that has made us so strong”.
European leaders at the summit addressed the crisis that has caused political spasms across the bloc.
The rightwing Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said that “being rescued in the Mediterranean must not automatically become a ticket to central Europe”.
The Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, leader of Italy’s far-right populist coalition, called for a fundamental change in the EU’s migration policy, saying his country received little help even though it was at the forefront of taking in migrants from across the Mediterranean. “Italy doesn’t need any more verbal signs, but of concrete deeds,” he said.
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